Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F24%3A00135037" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/24:00135037 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X221114654" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X221114654</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327X221114654" target="_blank" >10.1177/0095327X221114654</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army's Online Public Perception
Original language description
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced militaries worldwide to join the fight. Numerous (e.g., British or Czech) armed forces seized the opportunity to propagate their domestic pandemic mitigation activities to improve their public image. However, defense budgets are usually cut first in times of crisis. Such cuts, or the mere threat of them, can have severe strategic and national security ramifications. This research, both exploratory and explanatory, investigates how military crisis-relief activities and their online propagation can muster public support against austerity cuts. It employs mixed-methods analyses of more than 160,000 posts and comments from the Czech Army's Facebook page case study from January 2011 to January 2021. The study concludes that the Army's propagation of information about its participation in pandemic mitigation induced positive feelings significantly more than the other content. Moreover, despite unpopular measures (e.g., lockdowns and policing), the Army's efforts mobilized online public opposition to the austerity cuts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Armed Forces & Society
ISSN
0095-327X
e-ISSN
1556-0848
Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
202-223
UT code for WoS article
000837353900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85135744317